The gods of the Egyptians - or, Studies in Egyptian mythology (1904) (14577522909)

Identifier: cu31924092320518 (find matches)
Title: The gods of the Egyptians : or, Studies in Egyptian mythology
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Mythology, Egyptian
Publisher: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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The probability is that As, orAst, is a Libyan name originally, and that it is to be classed withthe names of the other Libyan deities, e.g., Net, Bast, etc., whowere Avorshipped by the predynastic Egyptians, and the sounds ofAvhose names were expressed by hieroglyphic symbols as nearly aspossible when the people of the country borrowed or invented theart of writing. The symbol of-the name-«f—I&i«—in—Egyptian is aseat,-or throne, jj, but we have no means of connecting it with theattributes of the goddess in such a way as to give a rationalexplanation of her name, and all the derivations hitherto proposedmust be regarded as mere guesses. Isis is usually depicted in theform of a woman who wears on her head a vulture head-dress, andholds in her hand a papyrus sceptre. The usual ornament orcrown on her head consists of a pair of horns, between which is asolar disk, and this is sometimes surmounted by d, the symbol ofthe sound of her name. Sometimes she wears the double crowns
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The Goddess ISIS. ISIS 203 of the South and the North, to the back of which is attached thefeather of Maat, and sometimes she wears with the pair of hornsand the solar disk two plumes.^ Her horns are usually those ofthe cow of Hathor, or of one of the sister forms of this goddess, \/,but occasionally ^ she wears a pair of rams horns, ~s~, under herdouble crown; since, however, Osiris was represented by the Ramof Mendes, and was identified with Khnemu, it is only to beexpected that his female counterpart Isis should appear sometimeswith the horns which are the peculiar characteristic of the greatRam-god. Isis, as a woman, and not as a goddess, is depicted inthe ordinary head-dress ofa womanT but even~ so she has theuraeus over her forehead, for the Egyptians wished it never to beforgotten thatHJTpjwps of rlivinp aiJginx oTthe TOrmsSvhich she hadthe power to take in her character of the lady of words ofpower mention will J)e made further on. An examination of the texts of all periods pr